Payroll Consultant at Communicate Recruitment

Qualifications: 

• Grade 12 or equivalent (Essential)
• Relevant tertiary qualification; a payroll qualification beneficial
• Sage 300 experience essential (at least 3 years with current work output)

Skills:

• PC literate and have working experience with MS Office – Excel must be at an intermediate level
• Ability to work under pressure - high-performance environment and may sometimes require overtime
• Numeracy skills
• Accurate typing skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to keep confidential information to yourself
• Organized and have the right administrative skills
• Quality-driven
• Ability to pay attention to detail (accuracy is important)
• Ability to work effectively with others and contribute to the team’s accomplishment
• Ability to operate effectively under pressure
• Task and deadline-orientated
• Strong sense of ownership and like to keep your line manager in the loop on your work outputs and deadlines
• Ability to manage your own time and prioritize your work outputs if needed
• Proactive and can multi-task

Job description:

• Compile and process salary and commission on the payroll system weekly and or monthly
• Maintain payroll information on various excel sheets
• Calculate and process travel allowances for commission earners
• Update banking details
• Share monthly incentive report with financial manager and input incentive scores as per ninja stats
• Review, action and reply on payroll related queries and requests from employees
• Run Sage 300 reports for month-end processes
• Compile annual statutory submissions i.e., COIDA and EMP501
• Compile maternity packs
• Compile UIF packs for terminations
• Compile and process leave pay
• Specialist Team Leader functions (for information only)
• Calculate and process Severance packages
• Process Group risk deductions for monthly and weekly employees
• Compile Group risk payment pack
• Process third party RA deductions on the payroll system
• Submit third party RA investment for payment and submit online
• Tax directive applications and processing
• Provide requested information for internal and external auditors
• Maintain GL structures and GL groups on the payroll system
• Share monthly payroll deadline reminders
• Compile and submit monthly EMP 201 to SARS
• Review annual statutory submissions i.e., COIDA and EMP501
• Review company credit card spend and verify support for payroll deduction and taxation
• Control account recon